What are the opposite words for thrust back?

Antonyms for the words "thrust back" include "advance", "push forward", "propel ahead", "encourage", "support", and "promote". While the term "thrust back" implies a forceful and negative action of pushing something away, its antonyms suggest affirmative and forward-moving actions. When we talk about "thrusting back" someone in a physical or metaphorical sense, it denotes an effort to resist and reject their influence. In contrast, the antonyms propose ways to move forward, encourage progress, and foster growth. By choosing the right words, we can convey our intentions with clarity and impact.

What are the antonyms for Thrust back?

• v.

  • return
  • keep
  ,
  • take
  .

Famous quotes with Thrust back

• It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.

  Sarah Grimké
• She was an appetising woman with a full-cheeked smile, about thirty, a Nordic blonde but not icy, though ice was suggested in its tamed winter-sport aspects : the flush after skating, log-fires and hot rum and butter, fine heavy thighs, that would warm your hand like a muff, under a skirt that had swirled in a rink waltz. Her beaver lamb coat was thrust back from a green suit : solid charms, thoroughly wholesome, were indicated.

  Anthony Burgess
• And the clergy said, 'Certainly, you're quite right; the disease is awful. Therefore, the only way is to let it alone. Amen. A contribution will now be taken up to extend Gospel privileges to the Philippine Islands'. The abolitionists retorted by declaring that you might as well let fire alone, by telling the free States that they were bound to thrust back fugitives, and were, therefore, themselves the mere bloodhounds and slaves of slavery, which could only live by expansion, and only wanted to be let alone to become impregnable.

  George William Curtis

Synonyms:

parakeet, paraquet, paroquet, parrakeet, parroket, parrot, parrot, parakeet, paraquet, paroquet.